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The church of Santa Croce overlooked the Grand Canal while the apse overlooked the Rio dei Tolentini. The façade was severe and austere, composed of three notable portals, the largest of which, in particular, was remembered by the press of the time…

The Armenian people were only one of the strains of population that settled in Venice: in fact, the Greeks, Turks, Syrians, Jews, Germans, etc. were also added to it. This babel of languages ​​and traditions led to the definition of the lagoon city…

Its realization derives from the cult of the homonymous saint whose body, in the 10th century, was transported to the island of Torcello; this, according to tradition, seems to be the origins of the building but there is certain information only…

The church and the adjoining monastery were built starting in 1188, the year in which the noble Ginevra Gradenigo donated land with "adjacent waters" to the Abadessa Giacomina Boncio to make it a place of worship; Ginevra was forced by her father,…

Nicolò di Pietro, commissioned by the Tuscan merchant Francesco Amadi, created, in 1408, an image of the "Virgin and Child between two Saints" and its owner decided to place this work outside his home. Immediately this image, considered sacred and…

The imposing religious place dedicated to the Servants of Mary, still visible today only minimally, shows its majesty in two of the very few images that have come down to us: a particular View of the Church of RR. PP. (Reverendi Padri) of the…

The adjoining convent dates back to the end of the 13th century by the Carmelite friars while the church was built in 1286 and consecrated in 1348. Towards the end of the 15th century, the place of worship underwent a major renovation which…

The church of S. Maria del Giglio (or Zobenico, or Zobenigo) was built in the 10th century on commission of the Jubanico family. Of particular importance is its façade, the work of architect Giuseppe Sardi da Morcote, where we find statues of the…

The church, dedicated to the Virgin Mary, was built in the fifteenth century, on a pre-existing building of the eleventh century, and was then remodeled again in the sixteenth century. The façade, divided into three parts by pilasters and…

The church, initially dedicated to Santa Maria di Val Verde, is firmly intertwined with the fate of the Confraternity of Mercy which in the area built a series of infrastructures dedicated to the confreres, from the school to the hospital, from the…

Building which is part of the ecclesiastical complex of Santa Maria della Presentation set up to assist girls without husbands and without dowry because they are poor (hence the nickname "delle Zitelle") who were often forced into prostitution; in…

The religious complex dedicated to the Penitents, consisting of the boarding school and the relative church, was built starting from 1705 with the aim of hosting young girls who had decided to leave prostitution and try to redeem themselves.…